"Going Down" (Don Nix) - Moloch - Freddie King - JJ Cale

Muscle Shoals musician Don Nix was in the Mar-Keys ("Last Night") in 1961 when he met Leon Russell. It wasn't long before Nix was also part of Leon's circle in Hollywood. Nix worked on Gary Lewis sessions and helped Don Preston on his 1968 album Bluse. Back in Muscle Shoals in 1969, Nix wrote a batch of songs and produced, arranged and engineered the recordings of them by a Memphis group called Moloch. "Going Down" was among them. Nix was the first artist signed to Denny Cordell and Leon's label Shelter. He did an album titled In God We Trust for Shelter, but did not record any of the Moloch tracks for it. Shelter artist Freddie King did however, and rendered a blistering cover of "Going Down" in 1970, with Leon Russell on piano, for his Shelter album Getting Ready. In July 1972, Shelter artist, and friend of Leon, JJ Cale, recorded a version of it, Tulsa style... laid back and wistful. He used his Tulsa pals, Jimmy Karstein, Gary Gilmore and Bill Boatman to record it. Please like and subscribe to this channel for more Tulsa-related videos, featuring Leon Russell, JJ Cale and David Gates... The Tulsa Trinity.

Added 4 Apr 2026